Showing posts with label weapons. Show all posts
Showing posts with label weapons. Show all posts
Friday, March 16, 2018

IN MEDIA RESOLUTION

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The essay's title is a pun on the Latin expression "in media res," "in the middle of things," which is generally on...
Tuesday, February 20, 2018

WEAKLINGS WITH WEAPONS PT. 3

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I discussed another type of "weaklings with weapons" in 2013's OUR ARMIES AT WAR, WITH MONSTERS.  Though a lot of "giant ...
Saturday, February 17, 2018

WEAKLINGS WITH WEAPONS PT. 2

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One of the most famous tropes of the superhero idiom is that of "strength concealed by weakness," or, alternately, "strength ...
Monday, February 12, 2018

WEAKLINGS WITH WEAPONS PT. 1

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In MESSING WITH MISTER INBETWEEN PT 2 I explained my reasons for not deeming Neil Gaiman's NEVERWHERE star Mayhew to be a less than com...
Wednesday, September 16, 2015

COMBAT PLAY PT. 2

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In Part 1  I said: There's a key irony here. I'm fully aware that one of the very things I like about the "combat myth"...
Friday, June 19, 2015

SWORD, MEET CHALICE PART II

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In Part 1  I recapitulated some of my earlier musings about the division of male and female roles in biology and culture, and the expression...

SWORD, MEET CHALICE

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In THE DOUBLE EDGED SWORD OF VIOLENCE , I pointed out that the charisma assigned to weapons could assume one of two values. One is positive,...
Friday, June 5, 2015

THE DOUBLE EDGED SWORD OF VIOLENCE

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In the series JOINED AT THE TRIP, beginning here , I refined some of my earlier statements about the nature of fictional sex and violence. M...